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‘Sharktopus’ wasn’t the first. These animals also hitchhike on other animals.
Cockroaches that catch a ride on ants. Grasshoppers that climb aboard sheep. Hitchhiking animals are more common than you ...
First ever video shows colossal squid in natural habitat
A one-foot-long baby squid was spotted swimming in the waters around the South Sandwich islands. The footage is unprecedented ...
California's sea lions aren’t really ‘demonic’—they’ve been poisoned
A common neurotoxin produced by algae blooms is making California sea lions more aggressive. Here’s why it has the power to ...
The world’s rarest penguins don’t fear the heat. Here's how they learned to embrace it.
These birds have evolved to withstand the equatorial sun and shelter in volcanic rocks along a subtropical coastline. After ...
This was the best place on Earth to see great white sharks—then they vanished
A new study based on two decades of data shows what happens in an ocean ecosystem without great white sharks. Great white ...
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What the ‘trash heap’ penguins of Argentina are teaching us about survival
While Magellanic penguins are known to breed in and around South America on rocky, sandy beaches before migrating each winter to the open ocean as ... THOMAS PESCHAK, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC IMAGE ...
The 'ugly' blobfish doesn't look like this—when it's underwater
In 2013, the blobfish was voted World’s Ugliest Animalby theUgly Animal Preservation Society in an effort to get some ...
These beetles eat rotting flesh—and could unlock the next generation of antibiotics
Known for spending much of its life underground, the little-known American burying beetle could hold the key to developing ...
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We’ve got your daily fix of adorable baby animal photos
Joel Sartore's latest book, "National Geographic Photo Ark: Babies," captures the animal kingdom's most curious ... It is the largest hard-shelled sea turtle, has a vast range across most of ...